Research On Visual Characteristics Of Mountain-like Texture Of Wood

The wood grain is formed by the arrangement of the wood cells, which is the mostimportant one of the natural properties of wood and also an important basis for theidentification and use of wood, and can also affect the visual effects of wood products. Thewood will produce different shapes of textures because of the different way of cutting thepeaks. This dissertation studied the tangential section of wood-like texture.This dissertation screened the psychological quantity vocabulary from the visualpsychological quantity, which could cover the characterization of wood mountain-liketexture. The theory of Kansei Engineering was applied to research on the mountain-liketexture, high emulation printing, and the artificial simulation mountain-like texture visualcharacteristics from the respects of visual psychological and physical quantities,respectively.The major findings are as follows:⑴Thirteen solid wood mountain-like textures, twelve technology wood peaks liketextures, and forty-three high emulation printing mountain shape textures were used forsurvey analysis of the visual psychological preference. There were twenty mountain-liketextures screened with higher preference. By cluster analysis found that they could bedivided into three categories (I, II, and III). The average values of texture spacing, thicknessand density for category I were4.63mm,0.79mm and0.23, respectively. The average valuesfor category II were3.61mm,0.76mm and0.21, respectively. The values for category IIIwere4.75mm,1.01mm and0.28, respectively.⑵The analysis of the visual physical quantity for the higher preferences of20woodmountain-like textures by cluster analysis found that the characteristics of visualpsychological quantity of mountain-like texture could be also divided into three categories,the first one was plain, natural, comfortable and friendly; the second was modern, elegant,luxurious, expensive and delicate; the third was traditional, rugged, and inexpensive.⑶By comparison of visual physical quantities of wood mountain-like texture andvisual psychology analysis found that the visual physical quantities and visual psychologyanalysis have a good corresponding relationship. Even “simple, natural, comfortable and cordial”that a kind of the visual physical quantity corresponded to “the medium extent ofspacing, thickness and density”that category I for visual psychology quantity;"the modern,elegant, luxurious, expensive and delicate" that two kind of the visual physical quantitycorresponded to "the less extent of spacing, thickness and density "that category II for visualphysical quantity;"traditional, rugged, and inexpensive "that three kind of the visualphysical quantity corresponded to "the larger extent of spacing, thickness and density "thatthe category III for visual physical quantity.⑷The artificial simulation was used to categories I, II and III and the mountain-liketextures were used to two types of furniture fabrication, which was validated by examples.that confirm with sample research results.